The elegant edifice serves as both sinister setting and charming character for a story told in two eras, switching back and forth between the Winnipeg of 1943 and that of 2013. Among other rumours, the hotel’s basement was a place where departed souls gathered and hid from the living. Opened in 1914 and once favoured by Winston Churchill, the hotel was alleged to be home to a mysterious woman who played a white piano at midnight. The Marlborough? Setting aside the Fort Garry Hotel - a more likely contender with its famously haunted suite of rooms - first-time Winnipeg novelist Maureen Flynn has a go at immortalizing the elegant century-old hotel as the supernatural setting for her crime-cum-romance novel Buckle My Shoe.įlynn has uncovered a lot of lore not generally known about the grand lady of Smith Street. Then there’s the Marlborough in Winnipeg. Mafia in Havana and the Savoy in London, where a cup of tea will set you back $10.Īdd to that the creepy contenders in fiction: Stephen King’s Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, and Hitchcock’s low-end Bates Motel. There’s the Chelsea, a hippy retreat in Manhattan the Nacional, former headquarters to the U.S. The list of hotels famous enough to make their way into legend is a short one. This article was published (3170 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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